MeeGo

Right now Android and iOS are pretty much dominating the mobile scene, with Microsoft trying very hard to compete in third place, with Windows Phone. Still, that hasn’t stopped ambitious new brands from entering this space, and one of those companies is Jolla. Jolla is a Finish company that consists of former Nokia employees. They

Right after the round LG G Watch R was announced, Samsung announced a new Tizen-powered Smartwatch, called the Samsung Gear S. The Gear S is the sixth wearable from the company this year, and features a 2 inch, curved AMOLED display, 2G and 3G connectivity for standalone usage, as well as Wifi and Bluetooth, a

Finnish manufacturer Jolla has partnered with online indian retailer Snapdeal.com to try and enter the Indian market. As you might already know, Jolla is a Finnish company comprised mainly of ex-Nokia employees, and created a new meego-based OS called “Sailfish” which is open source. The Jolla, the company’s first phone, went on sale in Finland

Now this is a new one. We’ve heard of devices getting upgraded to the next iteration of their software, but never a device being issued a software update that essentially changes the underlying OS to something else entirely. Tizen started out as a project with Intel. Similarly, Samsung had an OS called BADA and launched a

As part of the acquisition by Microsoft, Nokia’s global Headquarters in Espoo, which is better known as Nokia House, was going to be taken over by Microsoft as well. With the acquisition closing yesterday, the “Nokia” logo at Nokia House was taken down, and today there’s a big ol’ “Microsoft” logo put up instead. Yesterday,

Samsung apparently is still looking at Tizen as an alternative mobile OS, stating today that they will be releasing their first Tizen smartphone in the market this Q2 2014. This comes in from a report by Reuters, which quotes Yoon Han-kil, senior vice president of Samsung’s product strategy team, who stated that the first phone

The Samsung Gear 2 and Gear 2 Neo smartwatches were announced today, a sequel to last year’s Samsung Galaxy Gear smartwatch which was announced just five months earlier. With the Samsung Gear 2 watches, the Korean company drops the Galaxy branding and Android, as the Gear 2 (above) and the camera-less Gear 2 Neo (below)

Samsung’s first Tizen phone, the Samsung ZEQ 9000, also known as the Samsung Zeke, just leaked across the interwebs thanks to a very Galaxy-like render. The leaked image is from Korean website moveplayer.net, which reports that the ZEQ 9000 will feature a 4.8-inch 720p screen with a 2.3GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 800 quad-core processor powering everything.

The year is 2014. The remaining users of the Symbian and MeeGo platforms, once given assurances that their environment will be maintained until 2016, wake up to a post-apocalyptic landscape, one where essential services have been cut off, left in a state of stasis or put in cold storage until the end of time. Thankfully,